and daily lives of the Roman elite. But the work is far from over. Researchers are calling for more human and computing ingenuity to fully decipher the scrolls. “We’re confident we will be ...

This is an end view of one of the two Herculaneum scrolls from L'Institut de France being scanned at Diamond Light Source by the University of Kentucky Digital Restoration Initiative team from a 2019 ...

Languages: English, Spanish A remarkable ancient papyrus has shed new light on Roman legal proceedings in the Near East. Scholars from the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the University of Vienna ...

A "historic breakthrough" has been made as researchers have provided the first look inside a burnt Roman scroll in 2,000 years. Researchers have taken steps to decipher text preserved on ...

The contents of a 2,000-year-old burnt scroll from the Roman town of Herculaneum have been seen for the first time with the help of artificial intelligence (AI) and X-ray imaging. The document ...

For the first time in two millennia, a Roman scroll, carbonised by Mount Vesuvius’s eruption, is gradually being read through advanced X-ray imaging and machine learning techniques. The PHerc.172 ...

A "historic breakthrough" has been made as researchers have provided the first look inside a burnt Roman scroll in 2,000 years. Researchers have taken steps to decipher text preserved on papyrus ...

Researchers have finally deciphered a 1,900-year-old scroll describing a tense court case during the Roman occupation of Israel. The finding reveals more about criminal cases from the time and ...